Decency?

Young children are easily frightened.  They tend to believe what they are told. (Years ago my daughter spent a few days at her Montessori pre-school in stressful worry because one of the neighborhood brats had told her that her parents would drop her off at the school one day and never come back to get her. It was all we could do to get her to tell us what was bothering her.) Unnecessarily frightening a kid intentionally is repulsively wrong.  Doing so  and then exploiting that fear for some sort  of gain or advantage  is worse.  

That is what leftist politicians, school teachers, and media people are doing to children to promote and get publicity for their schemes to deal with “climate change”.  Whatever one thinks about  much the climate is warming and how much human activity is responsible for it, the world is not about to end. No Armageddon is upon us. We will not all be dead in one, ten, twelve or, according to some green prophecies, minus several   years.  Yet the lefties are scaring ignorant kids to death with apocalyptic nonsense and then using them as props for political theatre.

It is time to remember a question from history and ask  them “at long last, have you left no sense of decency?”.  On the evidence the answer would be no. They should be ashamed, and they certainly should be called out. Politics is a nasty game, and we should not expect its players to behave honestly or  honorably, but it is not too much to demand that they pick on people their own size and  leave the poor kids alone.